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Consumer, Cyclical -- It's All Dangerous Here

By Jim Cramer

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 Between the consumer stocks and the cyclical stocks, there's usually a bull market somewhere. These two broad groups encapsulate all the stocks that we think of when we know GDP is going up or interest rates are going down, and all of the stocks that do well in a recession. It is a testament to how bad this market is that both the CYC and the CMR are flat-lining. It is a testament to how little is "working" and how hard it is for any company's stock to get traction when the sector's grim. Take Colgate vs. Procter . If you bought PG off of CL, you bought the one that's getting whopped, and you immediately had to sell. Oh, and by the way, you have to sell, or else you get totally hosed on the second and third day when you get a bad miss...

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